Naruto: Who Slandered Me for Loving to Wipe Out Entire Families?

"First match—Hinata Hyuga versus Kiba Inuzuka!"

Morino Ibiki's voice, infused with chakra, slammed heavily into the center of the arena.

The entire venue erupted.

The Konoha candidates of the same class exploded into commotion. Ino grabbed Sakura's arm and leaned forward, Shikamaru frowned and clicked his tongue, and even Choji paused halfway through chewing his chips.

No one had expected the very first preliminary match to be a showdown between acquaintances from Konoha.

Kiba grinned, baring two rows of sharp canine teeth. He raised his forehead protector and leaped into the arena with Akamaru.

The chakra of the Four Legs Technique already surged through his limbs. Akamaru's white fur stood on end, and a low, threatening growl rumbled from his throat. The man and dog instantly gave off an overwhelming presence.

He raised his eyes and stared directly at Naruto in the front row of the stands, his gaze full of undisguised provocation and contempt.

"Naruto Uzumaki! Watch carefully!"

Kiba's roar spread through the entire arena. "Today, I'll win this match, then personally teach you what a real ninja is! You can't just slaughter innocent people with your strength and swagger around Konoha!"

Whispers immediately spread through the venue.

The rumors from the Forest of Death had long since spread like wildfire. Everyone knew that Konoha had produced a bloodthirsty brat who had cut through the entire Forest of Death with a single short blade.

Meanwhile, Hinata slowly walked into the arena.

She wore the Hyuga Clan's training clothes, her hands lightly clasped before her and her eyes lowered. She had not even activated her Byakugan.

"Kiba," she said softly, with a trace of barely perceptible concession, "can we stop at the right point?"

Hinata, now trained personally by Naruto, was far stronger than before. She did not want her fellow villager to lose too badly.

Even less did she want Naruto to be saddled with more baseless abuse because of such pointless disputes.

But to Kiba, those words sounded like naked humiliation.

"Stop at the right point?"

Kiba sneered and instantly lowered his body. His beastlike fingertips gouged deep furrows into the stone floor. "Hinata Hyuga, quit pretending to be a good person! Aren't you just relying on that lunatic Naruto to back you up? Today, I'll make both you and him submit!"

He stepped forward, spittle splashing onto the ground as his tone turned increasingly vicious. "A demon fox that kills without blinking is only a treasure in your eyes! Once I cripple you, I'll go tear his bones apart!"

The moment those words left his mouth.

Hinata abruptly raised her lowered eyes.

The veins around her eyes bulged, and her flawless white Byakugan opened fully in an instant!

Her three-hundred-and-sixty-degree vision instantly covered the entire arena. Every contraction of Kiba's muscles, every thread of chakra flowing through him, even every beat of Akamaru's heart—she saw them all with perfect clarity.

Her gentle aura vanished in an instant. Chilling Gentle Fist chakra surged from her fingertips, and even the air rippled faintly.

She looked at Kiba. Her voice remained soft, but it carried bone-deep coldness. "Kiba, you can look down on me. You can challenge me."

"But you cannot speak badly of Naruto."

"Courting death!"

Kiba's roar made the arena tremble as his chakra erupted to its limit. "Four Legs Technique! Beast-Man Clone!"

Akamaru transformed into an identical copy of him. The two figures simultaneously arched their backs, claws tearing through the air as spiraling gusts instantly formed!

"Fang Over Fang!"

Two tornadoes wrapped in shattered stones barreled mercilessly toward Hinata!

Wherever they passed, the hard stone slabs were ground directly into powder, and the fierce wind made it impossible to keep one's eyes open.

Kurenai Yuhi instantly sat upright in the stands, her fingers clenching tightly around her forehead protector.

This was Kiba's ultimate move. Few among their generation could take it head-on.

Yet Hinata, standing in the center of the arena, did not even move her feet.

Within her pure white eyes, the trajectories of the two tornadoes were as clear as the lines on her palm.

"Gentle Fist Method: Eight Trigrams Footwork."

Her figure instantly became an afterimage.

She sidestepped, slid, and turned. Every step landed precisely upon a position of the Eight Trigrams formation. What was a devastating killing move to others appeared as slow as a frozen image in her eyes.

The gusts did not even touch the edge of her clothes before she had already slipped through the pincer attack of the two tornadoes and appeared beside Kiba.

Kiba's pupils abruptly contracted.

Something was wrong!

His attack had missed completely!

He had not even seen how Hinata moved!

Before he could withdraw his move and change tactics, a stream of icy chakra precisely struck three key acupuncture points on his back.

At the same time, Akamaru's clone was struck in a chakra node on the neck by her fingertip.

"Thud."

The two figures crashed heavily onto the ground at the same time.

The spiraling gusts instantly dissipated. Their chakra was like a raging flood blocked by a giant boulder, crashing madly through their meridians yet unable to rise even a fraction.

Kiba lay on the ground, every muscle in his body stiff. He could only stare helplessly as Hinata's wooden sandal stopped before his eyes.

The entire venue fell silent.

A pin drop could be heard.

Three seconds later, an uproar like a tidal wave instantly blew the roof off the arena!

"One move?! Just one move?!"

"Fang Over Fang was completely dodged? And he was instantly struck in his chakra points?!"

"Is that really the little Hyuga girl who never even dared to speak loudly? When she signed up before, she did not even dare make eye contact!"

"The Hyuga Clan's Gentle Fist... can actually be used to this extent?!"

Morino Ibiki stood frozen on the platform for a full half minute before snapping back to his senses. He raised an arm and roared, "The match is over! The winner—Hinata Hyuga!"

Hinata slowly withdrew her fingertips. The veins around her eyes gradually faded, and she returned to being the gentle-looking young girl she had been before.

She crouched down and looked at Kiba, who lay on the ground unable to move. "Kiba, I stopped being the person I used to be a long time ago. You should not have insulted Naruto."

"You fucking cheated!"

Kiba's face reddened, veins bulging all over his body. He desperately tried to force his chakra to move, but all he got was needle-like pain throughout his meridians. His mentality completely collapsed. "Hinata Hyuga! If you've got the guts, release my chakra points! We'll fight again! I'm going to kill Naruto Uzumaki! That murderer!"

Hinata's gaze instantly turned cold again.

Her fingertip moved slightly, and a thread of Gentle Fist chakra precisely struck one of his pain points.

Kiba's whole body convulsed. He screamed in agony, cold sweat instantly soaking his hair. He could not even manage another roar.

"I'll say this one more time."

Hinata's voice held not a trace of warmth. "If you dare say one more bad word about Naruto, next time, it will not be as simple as striking your chakra points."

Akamaru whimpered beside him, but he did not even have the strength to stand. He could only rub his head against Kiba's arm, his eyes full of anxiety.

In the stands, Neji Hyuga's hand clenched tightly into a fist.

His knuckles turned white, his finger joints bluish.

The Caged Bird Curse Seal on the branch family member's forehead faintly burned. His Byakugan was fully activated as he stared unblinkingly at Hinata in the arena.

He had always believed the Hyuga Main House was filled with trash who coasted on their bloodline, and that Hinata was a coward who could not even take one move from him.

But now, this trash in his eyes had trained the Gentle Fist to such a level that she had defeated Kiba Inuzuka in a single strike.

And all of those changes were because of Naruto Uzumaki.

That Nine-Tails demon fox.

That man whom the main family's young lady was willing to lower herself for and defend with all her strength.

Overwhelming jealousy and hatred instantly wrapped around his heart like poisonous vines.

He suddenly stood and leaped down from the stands, landing heavily in the center of the arena and sending shards of stone flying.

His pure white Byakugan locked tightly onto Naruto in the stands, a cold mocking smile curling onto his lips.

"Naruto Uzumaki."

Neji's voice spread through the whole venue, instantly suppressing every other sound. "What kind of skill is it to hide behind a woman?"

"You dared to beguile the main family's young lady, but you do not dare come down and fight me? Let me see exactly what you, the demon fox stirring up all of Konoha, are made of!"

The entire venue fell silent once more.

Everyone's gaze turned toward Naruto in the front row of the stands.

Naruto had been leaning back in his chair, feet resting on the edge of the table as he idly played with his preliminary match number. He had barely glanced at the previous fight.

Hearing that, he finally lifted his eyelids and looked at Neji in the arena.

He was stunned for a moment. Then, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world, he scoffed and stood up.

"Are you sick?"

Naruto's voice was not loud, but it rang clearly through the whole arena, filled with undisguised mockery. "You're useless, so all you can do is rage impotently, huh? The girl won her match. What the fuck does that have to do with you?"

"You want to fight? Beat Hinata first. Instead of barking at me like some rabid dog, you dumb bastard."

Those words directly turned Neji's face livid.

The Curse Seal on his forehead abruptly bulged as chakra surged out of control, rippling even the air around him.

He had not expected Naruto to disdain even entering the arena, instead humiliating him viciously in front of candidates from across the Ninja World.

In the stands, Kurenai Yuhi looked at the tense confrontation below, then turned to Kakashi beside her, who was still lazily flipping through Icha Icha Paradise, and could not help speaking.

"Your student has become quite famous lately, hasn't he? He directly enraged the Hyuga Clan's genius! He'll probably be targeted relentlessly now."

Kakashi did not even pause in turning the pages. His eye beneath the mask did not lift, and his tone was casual yet unquestionable.

"You're overthinking it. I can't even see through my student's strength."

Kurenai Yuhi instantly froze.

The teacup in her hand shook violently, spilling scorching tea over the back of her hand. She did not even notice the burn.

Who was Kakashi?

The Copy Ninja, a Konoha Elite Jonin, a hero who had emerged from the Third Shinobi War, a renowned powerhouse in the Ninja World.

And he was saying he could not see through a twelve-year-old brat?

She abruptly turned back toward the careless blond boy in the stands, her eyes filled with shocked disbelief.

Beside Naruto, Karin crouched at his feet, carefully peeling an orange for him. Her sensing ability spread across the arena as she kept Neji firmly locked on. If he made the slightest move, she could strike instantly.

Sakura sat beside them, fingers clutching the hem of her clothes. She looked at Naruto, brows tightly furrowed, and finally could not help speaking.

"Naruto, your reputation really has not been good these past two days. A lot of people are saying you're ruthless, that you cause trouble around the village every day and bully people."

Sasuke leaned against the nearby wall with his arms crossed, his Two-Tomoe Sharingan half-open as he said coldly,

"That's right. All of Konoha is spreading rumors that you want to wipe out entire families whenever the mood strikes you."

Naruto's heart skipped a beat.

He had forgotten that, in order to farm Darkness Value recently, he had dealt with all the elder relatives who had bullied him before, as well as the peripheral members of Danzo's Root.

He had been a little ruthless, and he really had made threats. If they dared provoke him again, he would wipe out their entire household and kill their whole family.

He scratched his head in a concealing gesture, then suddenly slapped his thigh and shouted with complete conviction,

"Bullshit! Which son of a bitch slandered me for liking to wipe out entire families? I'll sue him for defamation!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned and accurately tossed the orange peel in his hand into a distant trash can. He grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, his eyes full of justice and innocence.

"Sasuke, I'm leaving this to you! Find out who's spreading those rumors. I'm going to wipe out his whole family!"